On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 02:20:06PM -0800, Pat Pleate wrote:1. Even though BIOS indicates CD-ROM device is the first bootable device, I can't boot from Disk 1 of FC3. 2. Attempted to boot from RH9 bootable floppy and install FC3 from CD (which can be "seen"), can't do it. 3. FC3 does NOT have the \DOSUTILS dir on the CD, unlike FC1 did, therefore, can NOT make a FC3 boot diskette. 4. Found FC1, \DOSUTILS on FC1 and created a boot diskette from that. I can boot but can not install FC3 - indicates the wrong core.
Unfortuantely, the install image is now too big to fit on a floppy, so that's a dead-end route.
All true, but you can use the existing installation of grub to boot the installation kernel and initial ramdisk. copy the kernel and initrd files from the pxe directory to you boot directory and edit your grub.conf file to something like:
title FC3 install
root (hd0,0)
kernel /{kernel filename}
initrd /{initrd filename}